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• I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

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  Thinking, Ice Cream, Vegetables

  "French Lessons". www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2006.

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• We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.

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  Soccer, Football, Jumping

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• If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

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  Soccer, Caviar, Sausage

  "Arsenal Boss Tells Booing Fans: Caviar Days Are over, Get Used to Sausages". The Mirror, www.highbeam.com. November 30, 1998.

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• The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

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  Football, Moral, Moral Values

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• Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.

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  League, Surprise, Unbeaten

  "The Best of the Season". www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2003.

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• One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

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  Soccer, Team, Wrestling

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• What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

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  Art, Interesting, Trying

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• Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

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  Player, Sometimes, Foul

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• I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

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  Team, Player, Thinking

  "How do world class coaches and the worlds best clubs view Youth player Development?". Interview with Alfred Galustian, challengefc.org. May 02, 2015.

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• Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.

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  Stupid, Winning, Men

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• I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...

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  Soccer, Jobs, Distance

  "Arsène Wenger dismisses personal landmark to focus on AZ Alkmaar" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2009.

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• English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

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  Player, Working Very Hard, League

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• Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

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  Vegetables, People, Fish Tanks

  "French Lessons". www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2006.

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• What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

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  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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• It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

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  Children, Confused, Ice Cream

  "Professor knocked down a grade by rocket scientist" by Russell Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2004.

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• Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

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  Football, Goal, Balls

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• Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

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  Life Is, Social, Behave

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• What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

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  Football, Passion, Games

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• Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

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  Soccer, Strong, Fighting

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• I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

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  Football, Bullets, Bears

  "Arsène Wenger keeps faith with Arsenal's training methods" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.

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  Games, Phrases, England

  "FA at wits' end as feud races out of control" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2005.

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• I think we live in a very competitive world, and I love competition.

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  Thinking, Competition, World

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• The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.

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  Soccer, Football, Mad

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• I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

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  Kicking It, Balls, Arguing

  "10 ways innovator Arsene Wenger has changed English football forever" by James McNicholas, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2014.

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• As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

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  Player, Influence, Coaches

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